Easel or holder for photographs, cards, price-tickets, and the like.



W. R. CLOUGH.

EASEL OR HOLDER FOR PHOTOGRAPHS, CARDS, PRICE TICKETS, AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21, 1911.

LQLQ} Patented Dec.9, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFIQE.

WILLIAM ROCKWELL CLOUG-I-I, OF ALTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

EASEL OR HOLDER FOR PHOTOGRAPHS, CARDS, PRICE-TICKETS, AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9,1913.

Application filed February 21, 1911. Serial No. 610,078.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ROCKWELL CLOUGH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Alton, in the county of Belknap and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Easels or Holders for Photographs, Cards, Price-Tickets, and the like, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a novel, highly efficient and easily constructed easel or holder in one integral piece of wire comprising a base or supporting portion and a clip portion adapted to firmly hold a card, label or the like, for display purposes, and to grip the same throughout the maximum extent permitted by the horizontal area or size of said base, the clip portion, in accordance with the preferred embodiment of my invention, being arched from one edge to the other of said base and extended upwardly transversely across the center of and at right angles thereto.

I prefer to construct the holder of my invent-ion from a single rod of wire fashioned to constitute a circular horizontal base and a pair of parallel corresponding vertical sideby-side arched members crossing the same and adapted to receive and grip between them a card or the like and hold the same upright for effectively displaying whatever matter or information that may be thereon.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a top view of a holder embodying my invention shown as holding a card; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is an edge elevation of the same taken at right angles to the view presented in Fig. 2; Fig. & is an elevation of the same taken from the edge of the holder opposite to that shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is an edge view indicating a method of forming the holder from a rod of wire coiled to form two convolutions, the dotted lines indicating the lines on which the lower half-sections of said convolutions are to be bent outwardly from each other into a horizontal plane to form the base of the holder, leaving the other half sections of said convolutions un disturbed to constitute the vertical clip; and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the holder formed from a single rod of wire.

In the drawings, referring to Figs. 1 to f inclusive and Fig. 6, the holder is shown as formed from a single rod of wire and comprising a circular base 10 and vertical clip 11, the base being of a single line of wire,

not continuous, and said clip being formed of two corresponding members 12, 13 which arch or extend centrally across from one edge to the other of said base and are adapted to receive and grip between them a card or the like 1%.

The base 10 serves as an effectual support for the holder and the clip 11 by being formed of closely related members 12, 13 and extended across said base from edge to edge thereof affords a secure clip for the card 14: and one adapted to grip the same throughout the maximum extent permit-ted by the general size of the holder, which will be made of small size to receive small cards or tickets and of larger size to receive photographs or large sheets of other charactor.

The holder may be variously constructed but it is desirable that it be manufactured with convenience and at the minimum expense, and to this end I recommend that the holder be made from a rod of wire wrapped to constitute two closely related complete vertical coils, as I show in Fig. 5, and then that the lower half-sections of said coils be bent outwardly from each other into a horizontal position, as I indicate by the dotted lines in Fig. 5, to constitute the base 10, leaving the other or upper two half-sections of the coils undisturbed to serve as the clipmembers 12, 13. The holder may in the manner just described be very conveniently manufactured from an integral rod of wire with no labor, after the coiling step, except the bending outwardly from each other of the two lower half sections of the coil to form the base 10. The base 10 is in the nature of a split ring and while not therefore in a technical sense continuous is substantially so, leaving no blunt end of the wire exposed to mar or interfere with the convenient handling or use of the holder.

In the finished wire holder, the rod of wire, commencing with the end 15, extends, substantially, along the line of a horizontal half-circle 16 to form one-half of the base, then along the line of a vertical half-circle to the point of beginning to form the clipmember 12, then reversely along the line of a horizontal half-circle 17 to form the other half of said base, and then along the line of a vertical half-circle to form the other clipmember 13, as shown.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An easel or holder for cards and the like comprising integrally a base and a pair of substantially co-equal clip-members arching centrally across from one edge to the other of said base, said base and clip-members being in one integral rod of Wire, with said clip-members in cooperative relation to grip a card placed between them and said base representing a single horizontal coil of said rod of Wire and said clip-members being arched directly therefrom.

2. An easel or holder for cards and the like comprising integrally a base and a pair of clip-members arching across the same .one of the clipmembers, then reversely along the line of a horizontal half-circle to form the other half of said base, and then along the line of a vertical halfcircle to form the other clip-member.

Signed at Alton, in the county of Belknap, and State of New Hampshire, this 17th day of February A. D. 1911.

WILLIAM ROCKWELL CLOUGH. Witnesses:

RUTH M. 'I'IILL, ALICE J. HoBBs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

